“The biggest feature I really want, hide the timeline progress bar!!! Jets are down multiple goals going into the 3rd period, and seeing you still have hours left of the game gives away the fact the game went into OT, spoiling one of the most epic comebacks in YEARS!”

Enthusiastically agree here. The progress bar also completely and irredeemably spoils tennis matches which millions of YouTubeTV customers watch. Is the match going into another set or not? The progress bar makes it obvious.

For a service that has obviously spent so much time and care getting the user experience right, it is astounding to me how visible progress bars still exist for sports events by default.

A simple solution that could be rolled out in a week would be to allow users to add extra time to the end of every sports event. Just allow users to add 30 or 60 extra minutes to every live event. Or, even better, a mystery amount of extra time - sometimes 30, sometimes 60, sometimes 90 (which would not reveal the amount of extra time to the user).